About

The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA) is a non-official, non-party, and non-profit making body. It seeks to encourage and facilitate the understanding of international affairs and to promote the scientific study of international politics, economics and jurisprudence. PIIA owes its origins to the 19th and 20th centuries’ human concern for peace which resulted in the setting up of institutes and councils of world affairs in many countries of the world.

The Indian Institute of International Affairs (IIIA) was established in Delhi in 1936 and its members voted to move it to Pakistan on the eve of the Partition. Khwaja Sarwar Hasan, then its Secretary, shifted its library and all its movable assets to Karachi in August 1947. This blog is part of the ongoing social media project at the PIIA.

The Institute disseminates research and knowledge about international developments, particularly those having a direct bearing on the foreign policy challenges of Pakistan, by arranging lectures, seminars and roundtable discussions and publishing a quarterly journal Pakistan Horizon.

The Institute is precluded by its charter from taking an institutional position on policy issues. The views contained in its publications or expressed on its platform (in lectures and seminars) are those of the authors and speakers respectively.

This Blog is part of the social media and online publishing project at The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs. Unlike most other institutes in the country, we do not receive any foreign funding and are completely free from external influence.
Email pakistanhorizon@hotmail.co.uk for further information in relation to any queries you may have. Thanks, Editors.